• starman2112@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    Hating both is the only based take. All billionaires are evil, even if you really really like their music.

    You’re fuckin dreaming if you think this silly airplane meme is equivalent to the hate we send Musk’s way all the time, constantly

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      7 months ago

      I didn’t see many memes about Swift’s plane usage till she threatened the kid tracking her flights. If that’s not just me, then she deserves it for making a stink about publicly available information.

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        She only threatened legal action after those memes started and when her flight movements got the attention of the right in an attempt to make her less credible of a voice speaking out against trump.

        And knowing how batshit insane trump cultists can be and how she’s basically the single most hated person of his base I’m not surprised that she feared for her security.

        Those records were public for years but the legal action only happened after someone created those memes and even fox news suddenly cared about plane emissions…

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      Interesting how it worked before the whole shitstorm with all the memes started.

      I wonder if those were not really about her flying but somehow related to her speaking out against trump and that was just the angle of the smear campaign to make her less credible for left people…

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    I hate Elon because he is a capitalist crushing the working class, an alt-right con artist and takes credit for things he didn’t do.

    I hate Taylor because she is a performative liberal who espouses progressive politics but doesn’t follow through making her a hypocrite.

    I hate both because they are billionaires and neither should have been able to accumulate as much wealth as they have.

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      While I believe that nobody should be able to wield that much wealth in the first place, arguably being a world-famous artist is among the least unethical ways to become rich as long as the artistic work isn’t bought from ghostwriters. It takes $10 in net profit from 100m fans to make a billion, and I could easily imagine a sizable crowd of her followers genuinely wanting to give her money like that (whereas, for example, I never would have willingly agreed to give Nestlé’s leadership money, even when I used to buy their brands still).

      I don’t care about her specifically, but from a “owning the fruits of your own labor” perspective, I think it makes sense for the art itself to be a big part of that.